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- Continuing our “Top of the World” series, NBC’s Jacob Soboroff visits an arctic U.S. military base that was built during the Cold War, but is now taking on new significance amid mounting tensions with Russia and North Korea.
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Cold War-Era US Air Base In Greenland Gets A Second Act | TODAY
"What's that noise mean ? That's the self destruct sequence". LoL
I was there as a civilian contractor working at the Satellite tracking station, was an interesting experience. Definately not for people who cannot handle the insolation, you are cut off from a lot of the amenities one might expect back in the states.
Thanks
Wow! God bless America
Camp Century, only about 150miles away: Upon its abandonment only the reaction chamber of the nuclear generator was taken. 9,200 tons of physical waste (building infrastructure), 200,000 liters of diesel fuel, 24,000,000 liters of biological waste, and 1,200,000,000 Bq (unit of radioactivity) of radioactive material were left at Camp Century.
What will happen when it gets warmer? I wish you folks would have asked the commander about this. Check out operation Iceworm
Yes! WHAT happends with the radioactiv materiel ???
No worries all!
The point is that the technology is there all it needs is a little bit of maintenance with newer technology
Just saying Savnnah Guthrie mentioned a great Tactical Point at 3:00. Gotta say, impressed!
Vapid female made relevant.
Nike/Ajax missile site. The clamshell doors would open, a huge elevator would lift the entire launcher with missile to ground level, missile fired... These were really large Sam's. (Surface to air missile's) and they're not just in remote forward area's. They're all ACROSS the U.S. you still see the now surplus sites( some in perfect condition with functional launch elevator's) coming around for sale every so often.
Safest place in case of a Pandemic
I like the Artic Camo coat the Tulle Base Commander was wearing. Anyone know what it is called or where I may buy one ?
The USAF is phasing that pattern out, it's called "ABU". I googled "ABU extreme parka" and only got the normal hits, not what he's wearing. You can get the gray ones online, I can say I never wore them as they were too bulky but are warm.
That is made by Dakota Outerwear
nice ice bound nike base
Show the media one silo that is retired and there is assumption all are retired.
Interesting how some of the other Nike bases have baseball diamonds and soccer fields on top of them, why not build other stuff on top of them. I think you know why? Cause they are still active! God Bless! Protect USA!
@@superchuck3259 Please, these are all over where I live. I scrambled through a few as a kid. There's a one as a restored museum near the Golden Gate Bridge. Which is easier, refabbing an asbestos and pcb polluted base that was abandoned in the 1960's or building a new base?
Also, detonating nukes over your own cities to take out nuclear bombers is a pretty crazy definition of "protecting". The entire cold war was stupid and a waste of talent and treasure.
This base seems like a cool place to visit. Do they allow tourists?
No !
Why would you even want to go there? It is quite literally in the middel of nowhere.
Yeah, "Cool" in the most literal sense.
Enlist....!
Everyone is talking like they want a nuclear war, I don’t get it??
Russia is looking for war, we are preparing to defend against their increased acts of aggression.
It is all about Fear. They loath their own existence. The upset people want to ban guns because if they had one they would injure themselves with it. So sick they are.
All these Non American new socialist would love a war.
@@Cascadianwa you are totaly stupid my friend
*مكان رائع وجميل*
On November 16, 1957, Minister of State and Foreign Affairs, H.C. Hansen (S) a note to the American ambassador to Denmark, Val Peterson. The note was a response to a question as to whether the Danish government wanted to be informed if the United States stationed nuclear weapons in Greenland. H.C. Hansen indirectly agreed that the United States placed nuclear weapons in Greenland. This was an extremely controversial decision, as the official Danish policy was that no nuclear weapons should be stationed on Danish soil in peacetime. Neither the government nor the foreign policy committee was informed of the decision, which was therefore contrary to the democratic principles. The public first became aware of the memorandum in 1995.
The letter from H.C. Hansen to the American ambassador to Denmark, Val Peterson:
"16. november 1957
During your visit here some days ago you made some remarks about the possible storing of supplies of munition of a special kind on the defence areas in Greenland.
I gathered that your Government did not see any problem in this matter, which in its opinion was covered by the Agreement of April 27, 1951, according to which each Government will take such measures as are necessary or appropriate to carry out their responsibilities in Greenland
and
the U.S. Government is entitled to store supplies, provide for the protection of the area etc.
and
all materials, supplies etc. shall be permitted entry into Greenland free of inspection.
You did not submit any concrete plan as to such possible storing, nor did you ask questions as to the attitude of the Danish Government to this item.
I do not think that your remarks give rise to any comments from my side."
sweetgrab333, Maybe we should drive to the nearest foreign government military base here in the USA and ask if they are doing that to us.
What? There ARE no foreign military bases here in tne USA? Just US Military Bases in 188 foreign countries? I don't suppose that costs far more than what we're told, does it?
Free of inspection? Cool now then can smuggle babies for thier adrenochrome🤬
Ahh I dunno about 1000 miles away. Is this on a mountain? Unless the missile is way up there above the ground. Weather radars can only see clouds about 80-140 miles away. Not sure if the Media is exaggerating here.
It's not a weather radar. It's substantially different.
ITS A NUCLEAR BASE!
Ballistic missiles fly pretty high... and those radars are powerful... If the aliens spot us it won't be the TV-signals, it'll be the US and Russian early warning radars blinking like a lighthouse as the Earth rotates.
It called “p” mountain. It is about 15 miles from Thule.
@@atiagooqkinguliaalu4027 no, it’s not.
Dont wory there are atomic torpedos
No place for a cold war, with global warming
......😐
Some people also see those who polluted Greenland as a threath !
Us should buy greenland
And then President Trump actually said it.... Maybe they should really think about it/
Bobbg Bristow only if you promise to sell Kentucky to Mexico 😉
@@denmark39 Mexico is poor like you stupid ,soon we will annex Greenland
@@SatishKumar-rc4pl nah
@@denmark39 yes
wonder how many ufo has they seen
The original name was Camp Century, worth looking that up.
Perhaps the world is mostly worried about the country that did use a nuclear bomb against a country, twice?
Nuclear bombs have never been used. Get your facts straight.
R, Well the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki know that nuclear weapons *HAVE* been used.
nope. You are wrong. Atomic is not Nuclear. Huge difference, and it stopped the war. Thank you America.
R, Wow, when someone is confused about nuclear and thermonuclear you can ignore anything else that they say. Thanks "R", your mommy says it's your bedtime.
@@roxyraccoon8856 Go get educated. Always tough behind a keyboard. Fool
Burp
This base would be vaporizered by Russian Cruise missile
U.S. could do the same to the Russians, and then some.
Are you talking about the nuclear powered cruise missile RasPutin bragged about...minus 1